{"id":11587,"date":"2025-07-20T23:29:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T23:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/11587\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T23:29:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T23:29:18","slug":"canada-just-falls-short-of-bronze-against-spain-at-fiba-u19-womens-world-cup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/11587\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada just falls short of bronze against Spain at FIBA U19 Women&#8217;s World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRNO \u2014 Somtochukwu-Blessed Okafor hit the go-ahead three-pointer with 1:17 left as Spain spoiled Canada&#8217;s effort to repeat as a bronze medallist with a 70-68 win at the FIBA Under-19 Women&#8217;s Basketball World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Canada was down two entering the fourth quarter and was up 67-65 with just over two minutes left. Ada Toribio tied it for Spain with a layup with 2:02 remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>After a missed floater by Canada&#8217;s Cearah Parchment with 1:31 left, Okafor hit the dagger to give her a game-high of 23 points.<\/p>\n<p>Avery Howell hit one of her two free throws with 1:07 remaining but Canada fell short of inching any closer.<\/p>\n<p>Canada fell to Australia 87-75 in the semifinals on Saturday resulting in its appearance in the bronze-medal game. Spain lost to the United States 70-58 in the other semifinal.<\/p>\n<p>Syla Swords led Canada, which won bronze in 2023, with 20 points. The University of Michigan star finished as Canada&#8217;s leading scorer in the tournament with 15.9 per contest.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 20, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRNO \u2014 Somtochukwu-Blessed Okafor hit the go-ahead three-pointer with 1:17 left as Spain spoiled Canada&#8217;s effort to repeat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11132,11130,11131,11134,49,48,11133,44,7413],"class_list":["post-11587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ada-toribio","tag-basketball-world-cup","tag-bronze-medallist","tag-bronze-medal-game","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fiba","tag-news","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}